ROME AND GREAT BRITAIN.
[To THE EDITOR OF vs " SPECTATOR."]
Sia,—Your correspondent " Australian " need hardly have asked the question " whether the Vatican is more political than religious, more hostile to the British Empire than friendly to its own religious interests." The callous indifference of the Pope to the worst atrocities committed by the Germans throughout the war is a patent fact. We know how the Romish Hierarchy has opposed
us in Canada and in Australia; lastly, we have the whole Papal
Hierarchy of Ireland openly defying the British Parliament and the British Government on a question vitally connected with the war against Germany. Thus it appears that in our struggle on behalf of the Powers of Light against the Powers of Darkness we have to face the whole Papal array embattled against us, from the Pope to the village priest. But, after all, Sir, there is nothing really new in this. All the world knows that since the Council of Trent Rome has invariably sided with the Big Battalions, opposed to all liberty and all progress.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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